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ғᴜᴛᴜʀᴇ ʜɪsᴛᴏʀʏ ɪs ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜɪɴɢ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴡᴇ ᴅᴏ ᴛᴏᴅᴀʏ. Sᴏᴄɪᴀʟɪsᴍ ⁱˢ ᵗʰᵉⁱʳ ⁿᵃᵐᵉ ᶠᵒʳ ᵃˡᵐᵒˢᵗ ᵃⁿʸᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ ᵗʰᵃᵗ Hᴇʟᴘs ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ. --Harry Truman 1952 🇺🇸🇵🇸🇺🇦🇲🇽🇸🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 17h

And what I’m hearing is that RFK Jr. is willing to mislead and deceive the public in order to further his political career and make life easier for his family.

Thanks for exposing this, Cheryl.

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Cheryl Hines says RFK Jr. suggested they fake separation during 2024 campaign

Cheryl Hines, the wife of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said her husband suggested they fake separating during his 2024 presidential campaign. “Some people …

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 1d

Apparently people are being shitty to baristas over the AWS outage.

Like, “I can’t put my phone number in Toast and save/redeem points” is definitely Amazon and not the person getting underpaid to make your coffee, I promise. Go bitch at Jeff.

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🇧 🇴 🇧 🇧 🇮 🇳 🇵 🇴 🇳 🇾 🇹 🇦 🇮 🇱 @bobbinponytail.bsky.social · 5h

I’m so sorry for your loss. 🕊️🕊️🕊️

🇧 🇴 🇧 🇧 🇮 🇳 🇵 🇴 🇳 🇾 🇹 🇦 🇮 🇱 @bobbinponytail.bsky.social · 5h

They just don’t know how to not make things worse. It’s like a compulsion with them.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 15h

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Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

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🇧 🇴 🇧 🇧 🇮 🇳 🇵 🇴 🇳 🇾 🇹 🇦 🇮 🇱 @bobbinponytail.bsky.social · 5h

yaaaassssss

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Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 1d

Bless The Chicago Mayor’s Call For A General Strike
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Bless The Chicago Mayor’s Call For A General Strike

Can God get an amen?

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🇧 🇴 🇧 🇧 🇮 🇳 🇵 🇴 🇳 🇾 🇹 🇦 🇮 🇱 @bobbinponytail.bsky.social · 5h

Is that like a contortionist?

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Yes, this.

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Or the beginning of recognition that they were only ever offering crumbs and demz needed to GET A BIGGER VISION. Repugs took vision to the wall with p2025 and STILL demz don’t understand vision. It’s maddening. Ask women. Ask all groups who are “othered.” Waiting to be given something does not work.

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Except when both parties are bought by special interests. Then you’re no longer in a democracy making concessions, are you? More like in a fraying democracy, being duped by ppl pretending to represent you.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

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🇧 🇴 🇧 🇧 🇮 🇳 🇵 🇴 🇳 🇾 🇹 🇦 🇮 🇱 @bobbinponytail.bsky.social · 5h

These bonebrains in politics don’t seem to understand the meaning of “extreme.” They all get it wrong. Constantly.

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 5h

Because the GOP can't win with its imperial, rich guy ideas, they are cheating.
Stand up. Help register new Dem voters w proven techniques & @fieldteam6.org incredible data. Most unregistered folks have never been asked to register & vote!
#USDemocracy
#WeAreDemocracy
#voices4victory

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 6h

This is the J6 insurrectionist accused of threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries:

Jan. 6 Rioter Looking for 'Something' to 'Use Against These Scumbags' Is Headed to Prison

Christopher Patrick Moynihan was seen on video paging through a senator's notebook in search of "something" that could be used against lawmaker "scumbags."

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🇧 🇴 🇧 🇧 🇮 🇳 🇵 🇴 🇳 🇾 🇹 🇦 🇮 🇱 @bobbinponytail.bsky.social · 6h

ok if that’s all you got. perhaps next time keep scrolling instead of randomly starting shit on a random-to-you comment.🙄

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American institutions don’t crumble? Ummm. Are you being serious?

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It’s weird.

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Perhaps the message is to stop watching TV. Oof.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

(CBS News) - A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t know who needs to be reminded of this, but the President of the United States is a public servant and so are senators and representatives. They’re paid in American taxpayer money and votes. They work for you. Not the other way around.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

The White House keeps making a big deal of the fact that the ballroom is privately funded but that’s one of the worst things about it.

These people and companies are buying influence. None of this is okay.